“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.” WayFeelsPersonsSelfLastsSpiritualEasyBuddhismBalanceEnlightenmentDiscoveryStriveSelf DiscoverySuperiorsPathwaysBigots Author:Frederick Lenz
“'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate at great physical/ spiritual pain. When the right numbers are reached, their holocaust starts all over again! Another merry-go-round/ bu$ine$$ a$ u$ual!!! Protectionists/welfarists find it a profitable issue: no controversy/ easy donations! I'd rather see an entire species extinct than in the hands of the humans!” HumansHomeHandsPainSpiritualCoursesIndividualEasyAnimalNumbersIssuesSpeciesRoundsMatesAnimal RightsHolocaustControversyExtinctionProfitableConvenienceMerryDonationHabitatCaptivityMerry Go Round Author:Adela Popescu
“There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.” BelieveSpiritualJoyI BelieveEasyIntellectualCynicismRefugeCynicPseudoWholeheartedlyPseudo Intellectuals Author:Craig Ferguson
“No age can have everthing and in material ways ours is more fortunate than any preceding one. Our ancestors appear to have mastered the art of living better than we are able to when an easy conscience, largely due to the unshaken faith of the time, left a marging of spiritual energy with which to enjoy life.” WayArtAgeAbleSpiritualEnergyLeftEasyEnjoyMaterialsConscienceDuesFortunateAncestorEnjoy LifeArt Of LivingTime LeftSpiritual EnergyLiving Better Author:Flora Thompson
“Living in the spiritual world is very easy, once you grow accustomed to it. But initially, it puts you through some changes.” WorldPhilosophySpiritualGrowsEasyAccustomed Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.” ImportantSpiritualEasyDrinkIllusionRefugeStopping Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.” WellsMatterHardRunningSpiritualEasyCan DoLosesForgetPathFocusOne ThingWeekStressEntertainmentPrioritiesWanderWell BeingDesertEnginesSmall ThingsMaintenanceForget YouEntertainment Business Author:Ralph K. Winter, Jr.
“The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.” ShouldDoeRealSelfRememberSpiritualLyingEasyDifficultGoalWorkOrdinaryTraditionContraryVulnerabilityOpennessCharismaAscentGreat ExperiencesReal Work Author:Morris Berman
“In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.” FeelsSpiritualEasySidesToo MuchFashionMaterialsImportanceNeglectedMaterial Things Author:Tom Ford
“I was lucky enough to have had great success early on in life; to have had all the things the material world can offer. And yet, I realized that what I had actually neglected was the more spiritual side of myself, which has always been there. But it's easy for us in our culture to become consumed in a sense by materialism. Now materialism is fine. We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.” WorldEnoughBeautifulSpiritualCultureEasySidesOur LivesMaterialsFineOffersLuckyI RealizedMaterialismBeautiful ThingsConsumedNeglectedGreat SuccessMaterial World Author:Tom Ford
“Denotation by means of sounds and markings is a remarkable abstraction. Three letters designate God for me; several lines a million things. How easy becomes the manipulation of the universe here, how evident the concentration of the intellectual world! Language is the dynamics of the spiritual realm. One word of command moves armies; the word liberty entire nations.” WorldMeanGodSpiritualMovingUniverseThreeLanguageNationsEasySoundLinesLibertyMillionsIntellectualLettersArmyCommandRealmsRemarkableConcentrationManipulationEvidentAbstractionOne WordDynamics Author:Novalis
“It is far easier, though not very easy, to develop and preserve a spiritual outlook on life than it is to make our everyday actions harmonize with that spiritual outlook. For though we may renounce the world for ourselves, refuse the attempt to get anything out of it, we have to accept it as the sphere in which we are to co-operate with the Spirit, and try to do the Will.” WorldTryingMayActionSpiritualSpiritEasyAcceptingEasierEverydayRefusePreservesSpheresOutlookRenounceOutlook On Life Author:Evelyn Underhill
“You have to be able to connect to the world of archetypes. That is not so easy, and most people in the West have no clue, that that is necessary, because they have no clue of what that means. They see the image, they see Buddha here, but they don't see what the image represents. Its one thing to see with this physical eyes, it's another thing to see with this spiritual eye.” PeopleWorldMeanEyeAbleSpiritualEasyOne ThingWestClueArchetypeSpiritual Eyes Author:Robert Svoboda
“Facing the darkness, admitting the pain, allowing the pain to be pain, is never easy. This is why courage - big-heartedness - is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey. But if we fail to let pain be pain - and our entire patriarchal culture refuses to let this happen - then pain will haunt us in nightmarish ways. We will become pain's victims instead of the healers we might become.” IfsWaySoulBigsMightHappensPainSpiritualCultureEasyDarknessVirtueFailingJourneyEssentialsVictimRefuseAllowingHealerAdmittingSpiritual Journey Author:Matthew Fox
“In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.” NeedsBelieveWholeLightSpiritualCultureEvilEasyDarkDarknessGreaterNeededDevilWesternNarrativeWestern CultureDichotomy Author:Kevin Sessums
“I think spiritual perception comes from natural and healthy relationship to the land and I've had that. I get an easy, automatic sense of myself in nature, a wholeness and I feel nowhere else. I think people should live where praying is most immediate. That`s why I live in New Mexico. The physical terrain, the feeling, the environment and culture improve my life just by waking up there.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldFeelingsSpiritualCultureEasyNaturalEnvironmentLandPrayingHealthyPerceptionWake UpWakingMexicoWholenessTerrainHealthy RelationshipNew Mexico Author:Val Kilmer
“In my creature impatience I am often caused to wish that there were some way to bring modern Christians into a deeper spiritual life painlessly by short, easy lessons; but such wishes are vain. No shortcut exists. God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. It is well that we accept the hard truth now: The man who would know God must give time to Him.” KnowsMenWayGivingWellsHardAgeChristianSpiritualWishEasyAcceptingModernHe ManLessonsCreaturesMachinesMethodDeeperNervousVainSpiritual LifeKnowing GodImpatienceHasteShortcutsHard TruthsPain In Life Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The spiritual path is easy. It's the only path that is.” SpiritualEasyPathSpiritual Path Author:Roger Delano Hinkins